This is one for you math guys & girls.
I recently filmed some time lapses with my new DVX. They came out insanely well.
However, I could not figure out how to shoot it in the 24PA mode. I therefore set up a scene file to mimic the look of the the 24PA that was actually shooting 30P. I captured the footage along with my 24P footage and it showed up in FCP as 29.97. The time lapse setting was 0.5 sec (or 15 frames) every 30 sec.
My intention was to simply speed the footage up by 15 times with the hope that I would get a smooth timelapse which sampled 1 frame from the 0.5 sec (15 frames) intervals. This actually worked out quite well.
The problem I am now having is getting the 29.97 footage to play smoothly on a 24P timeline. Obviously, this will not work with my chosen method as the clip I created is 30 different frames per second and I would obviously need to drop 6 frames per second, which makes for jerky playback.
So I need to figure out a method to draw a 24 different frames from theis footage. Using Time Re-mapping in AE is the only thing I could think of, but setting a new keyframe every 15 frames and then sliding them all down the time line is a long tedious process.
Any suggestions?
J.
I recently filmed some time lapses with my new DVX. They came out insanely well.
However, I could not figure out how to shoot it in the 24PA mode. I therefore set up a scene file to mimic the look of the the 24PA that was actually shooting 30P. I captured the footage along with my 24P footage and it showed up in FCP as 29.97. The time lapse setting was 0.5 sec (or 15 frames) every 30 sec.
My intention was to simply speed the footage up by 15 times with the hope that I would get a smooth timelapse which sampled 1 frame from the 0.5 sec (15 frames) intervals. This actually worked out quite well.
The problem I am now having is getting the 29.97 footage to play smoothly on a 24P timeline. Obviously, this will not work with my chosen method as the clip I created is 30 different frames per second and I would obviously need to drop 6 frames per second, which makes for jerky playback.
So I need to figure out a method to draw a 24 different frames from theis footage. Using Time Re-mapping in AE is the only thing I could think of, but setting a new keyframe every 15 frames and then sliding them all down the time line is a long tedious process.
Any suggestions?
J.
